Mistake Not...
Cleared for Takeoff
- Joined
- Jun 18, 2013
- Messages
- 1,251
- Display Name
Display name:
Mistake Not...
Working on my instrument rating, but more or less just started. I remember reading on here and other places how holds rarely occur in real life, so I thought this was interesting.
I'm out at the hangar wiping bugs off the plane and listening to my scanner. Approach suddenly announces something like "Attention all aircraft, my screen just froze. Radar service terminated for all aircraft." and then started issuing holds for the instrument stuff (mostly two commercial flights coming into the class C).
It only lasted 15 seconds or so, but the weather was great and traffic was relatively light. I'm guessing had I been on an instrument flight plan I probably wouldn't have been expecting to hold.
How often does this really happen (holding for real)?
I'm out at the hangar wiping bugs off the plane and listening to my scanner. Approach suddenly announces something like "Attention all aircraft, my screen just froze. Radar service terminated for all aircraft." and then started issuing holds for the instrument stuff (mostly two commercial flights coming into the class C).
It only lasted 15 seconds or so, but the weather was great and traffic was relatively light. I'm guessing had I been on an instrument flight plan I probably wouldn't have been expecting to hold.
How often does this really happen (holding for real)?